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Jury weighs death in fatal Conn. Home invasion - Page 2 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 20th Mar, 2016 - 5:17am
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Connecticut Home Invasion Murder Trial - Steven Hayes and Joshua KomisarjevskyPetit Family Murders - Page 2
Jury weighs death in fatal Conn. Home invasion
Original Post Date: 18th Oct, 2010 - 2:14pm
I don't even know why they need a jury in cases like this one (Yes, I know I am just upset). People like this don't deserve to breathe, what they did is just beyond AWFUL!
QUOTE The jury that convicted a man of killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in their home will begin weighing whether he should be executed. The penalty phase of the trial of 47-year-old Steven Hayes starts Monday in New Haven Superior Court. Hayes was convicted of 16 counts for the 2007 killings in Cheshire. Authorities said Hayes and another ex-convict, 30-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky, broke into the house, beat Dr. William Petit, and forced his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to withdraw money from a bank before Hayes sexually assaulted and strangled her. Their daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, were tied to their beds before the house was set ablaze. Komisarjevsky's trial starts next year. The crime drew comparisons to "In Cold Blood," Truman Capote's chilling book about the 1959 murders of a Kansas family, and prompted more Cheshire residents to get guns. It also led to tougher laws for repeat offenders and home invasions, and Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell cited the case when she vetoed a bill that would have abolished the death penalty…
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